Gender Lens Investing
Women’s World Banking Asset Management (“WAM”) invests in growing businesses with innovative solutions that enable women to achieve economic empowerment and resilience. Our goal is to create enterprise value and deliver competitive financial returns by investing in businesses that unlock the potential of women as customers, leaders, and employees.
Gender Lens Investing's Global Impact
Through Emerging Markets Funds I and II, WAM has invested approximately $115M in a total of 22 inclusive financial institutions across Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA, and Latin America, bringing our total women served by portfolio companies to over 10M.
Emerging Markets Funds
Channeling Investment Capital to Promote Women’s Financial Inclusion
Our mission through Gender Lens Investing is to make direct equity investments in inclusive financial institutions with an explicit focus on women through Women’s World Banking Capital Partners Funds I and II. We create value through advocacy and a dedicated technical assistance facility to help portfolio companies capture the sizable market of financially underserved women and attract female talent to all parts of their organizations, thereby achieving higher returns on investment while helping to close the gender gap in financial inclusion.
Why Gender Lens Investing?
Our Financial Impact
FUND I AT A GLANCE
49% Women
by Portfolio Companies
FUND II AT A GLANCE
46% Women
by Portfolio Companies
What Makes Our Approach Unique
Portfolio Companies
FUND II
FUND I
FUND I EXITED
Investors
Meet Your Management Team
Asset Management Team
Grievances
Any individual or community who believes that a portfolio company of WWB Asset Management has adversely affected or is likely to adversely affect them can submit a complaint to grievanceswam@womensworldbanking.org.
Expanding Impact Through Partnerships
The Women’s World Banking Gender Lens Investing strategy is further strengthened by integrating the mission and portfolio of Women of the World Endowment (WoWE). Founded by Patience Marime-Ball with the support of Dr. Ruth Shaber and other visionary donors, WoWE was created to shift the paradigm of capital allocation towards diverse teams and impactful strategies that deliver financial, social, and environmental value.
WoWE has built a strong legacy of impact investments and thought leadership. By combining efforts, we aim to scale investments that promote women as leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers in industries critical to social and environmental transformation. Learn more.
Impact Investments
Built a diversified portfolio advancing social change.
Research & Insights
Delivered key findings on the benefits of gender-inclusive investing.
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